In article <1992Nov15.204629.29649@njitgw.njit.edu> wxt5592@hertz.njit.edu (wei tang cis stnt) writes:
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> Protogen is a piece of junk. Never use it! It doesn't support MDI and many others, brings problems and waste your time, and some money. There is no cheap code generator that will work for you.
How about this: Forget Protogen, buy Quick-C for Windows, and use Case:W which
is included with it? It's an _excellent_ code generator, and upgrade-able to
the Corporate Edition (creates a Help system automatically, and other little
niceties) for a very reasonable price (I paid $249US). I've been using Case:W
and Case:PM for a number of years, and can tell you unequivocally that they
have saved me literally _months_ of drudge-work programming I'd have had to do
without them. I can bang out prototype-to-product code in less time than it
takes non-code-generator-users to hunt down their electronic cut-and-paste
scissors, and my code will be correct the _first_ time. If you aren't using
a modern code generator, you're wasting a lot of your life.
Oh. Here's a little bonus for you. The code which Case:W produces for QCWin
will compile quite nicely, thank you very much, under MSC 6.0 and 7.0. You
just have to create a proper makefile, which you already know how to do. And,
with appropriate changes to resources, the .WIN files produced by Case:W will
run in Case:PM and port your app to OS/2 ... automatically! I understand that
CaseWorks also plans to produce an X-Windows (possibly Motif) version which
will also use the same .WIN files, so you'll have Unix portability, as well.
When you call CaseWorks, tell 'em I sent you and plugged 'em on Internet.
Maybe they'll give me a discount on the next upgrade! :-)
